john> First thanks for the reply. Not a problem, NIC problems can be a total pain!
john> Where the server sits the NOC had an upgrade and they went to john> all new gigabit switches. So when I try to do any transfers from john> this server (or from any of the VMs on the server) I get speeds john> that make a 56K modem look like lightspeed. The server is not john> overloaded as there is only one production VM on the system that john> is just doing a bunch of telnet (well sssh ) sessions. The load john> average on the VM never goes above 0.00. I asked our NOC folks john> and they said to make sure the NIC is set to full Duplex. So I john> started checking and saw the card was set to 100mb and half john> duplex. Thus started my journey. I have been on with HP for the john> past 1.5 hours while they step me through all the things I have john> tried. I was hoping there was someone out there that might have john> come across this already. Ah... so the problem is more that the NIC is stuck at 100mb/half, even though the other end is GigE now? It might be you just need to goto 1000/half and see how that works. Or try 100/Full instead. Maybe your NIC is *really* stupid and lies about it's support for GigE.... I'd probably goto 100/Full now, see if that fixes things first. John _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
